Slides of a keynote at the University of Oldenburg in September 2015. How to build a University where collaborative learning and interdisciplinary work are in the core? Why is it important? What are the implications for learning? How to help students to become critical and ethical change makers?
6. 23.9.2015
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Zach
Dodson
Three leading universities form Aalto University in 2010
Helsinki University of
Technology, found in 1849
Helsinki School of Economics,
found in 1911
University of Art and Design
Helsinki, found in 1871
75 000 alumni
20 000 students
5 000 employees
50. Critical is the access
to the tacit
knowledge of the
experts.
Expertise develops in
participation to the
practices of the experts,
rather than by studying
formal knowledge.
(Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002)
What research suggests?
51. What research suggests?
Practicing work with experts from different fields than yours.
(Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002)
52. Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002
What research suggests?
Practicing work with experts from different fields than yours.
Critical is the access
to the tacit
knowledge of the
experts.
Expertise develops in
participation to the
practices of the experts,
rather than by studying
formal knowledge.
65. Basic desires:
What makes people to act?
1. Desire to influence (including
leadership; related to mastery)
2. Desire for knowledge
3. Desire to be autonomous
4. Desire for social standing
(including desire for attention)
5. Desire for peer companionship
(desire to play)
6. Desire to get even (including
desire to compete, to win)
7. Desire to obey a traditional
moral code
7. Desire to improve society
(including altruism, justice)
8. Desire to exercise muscles
9. Desire for sex (including courting)
10. Desire to raise own children
11. Desire to organize (including
desire for ritual)
12. Desire to eat
13. Desire for approval
14. Desire to avoid anxiety and fear
15. Desire to collect, value of frugality
(Reiss 2004)
66. LabOurWard! –
Innovating to save
women’s and babies
lives in low resource
settings
DOM-E5042 (5-10 cr)
Explore how the interplay of services,
space and media can create better
experiences for women, children and
families, as well as an empowering work
environment for health care providers.
Information design? Visualizations? Way-
finding? Story telling? Spatial design?
Materials and colors? Gadgets? Services?
The focus will be on resource low settings
in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East
Asia.
Results will be exhibited and
presented at the Women Deliver
conference in Copenhagen during 16-19
May 2016 (see: http://wd2016.org) in the
form of a “LabourWard prototype”
DL for application 17.9.2015
WebOdi code: DOM-E5042